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The Most Important Quality A Digital Leader Requires
Digital Transformation
Digital technology needs to enhance your processes and activities, and also what you are able to offer to your clients.
Companies now need digital innovators to lead them or risk perishing under the growing wave of digital disruptions. They also need to communicate and share with customers and employees, to identify opportunities and individuals who will help promote change.
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Digital Leaders
It is about understanding how specific technologies interact with people, and setting aspirations, creating culture and building capability.
Successful digital leaders challenge obsolete organizational ways and give teams the space to be disruptive and creative. Successful digital leaders also work in partnership with business and tech entrepreneurs to define and solve the most important issues.
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Characteristics Of Digital Leadership
- Recognising that digital is not always about scale of flashy projects, it’s about transforming people and ways of working
- Developing digital skills across the organization, not just wi...
Digital Leadership & Transformation
Leaders nowadays need to understand technology as much as they understand money, HR, or the law, in order to make confident, informed and effective decisions for their organization and users.
Skills development is a continuous process for leaders as they need enough understanding to recognise their skill gaps and identify what can help their projects and organizations to thrive.
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Talent Spotting
Digital leaders don’t have to do everything themselves, but they must be able to spot the areas of their organization that need improving. Moreover, they need to be able to hire an...
Adaptability
Sudden changes in the industry can disrupt the status quo, potentially derailing the success of your organization. In these situations a leader must remain flexible and adaptable, ready to make the quick decisions that can keep the company on track with minimal negative impact.
Risk-Taking
Putting speed and innovation ahead of tried-and-tested business practices often makes leaders cautious. However, in a fast-changing world, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
For a start-up, the risks can be even greater but innovation is impossible without risk. And if you can’t take risks, you may not be cut out to be a digital leader.
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Thin The Herd
It’s okay for a leader to be loyal to their employees as long as their first loyalty is to the health and success of the company. Exceptions aside, outsourcing in general costs less, allows for ...
Question The Foundation
Most businesses don’t need to own its IT infrastructure because the cost of access has plummeted to the point it is often economically irresponsible to do so. The new digital leader points to the higher level of service and lower costs achieved through external partnerships.
You should be embracing cloud infrastructure and getting out of facility management.